Matthew- For learning to custom style your ListView, look into Android UI Styles & Themes [there's a good article over at developer.android.com on this topic]. In a way they're like CSS, allowing you to apply certain style traits to certain elements..
A great resource for learning UI is the open-source stock Android apps [Browser, Email, SMS, Clock, etc]... You can find and download these source packages by searching Google for "android source". Definitely stick with the ListView as it is designed to recycle Views, keeping in memory only enough Views needed to fill the user's screen. You can learn to style the ListView in any way you like. -Nick On Apr 17, 12:14 pm, Matthew Patience <[email protected]> wrote: > In that case, I shall stick with the ListView for now. I was just > trying to make it look better as I still have trouble trying to > implement Fancy ListViews. > > On Apr 17, 2:50 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Matthew Patience wrote: > > > I need some help with the following scenario, as I am so used to make > > > all of my layouts with XML, but now I have a situation where that > > > won't work. > > > > I am working on the second version of my app that delivers news, in > > > the comments section I used to use a listview to display user > > > comments, but it doesn't work that great for comments that could be > > > anywhere from 5 to 500+ characters long. > > > Why do you feel it doesn't work? > > > > So I want to create a whole > > > bunch of TextViews in a scrollview and stack them below each other. > > > Ummmm...you're going to need something between those layers. Probably a > > ScrollView holds a LinearLayout which holds TextViews. > > > > My best guess was this, although it is definitely wrong because it > > > only shows one comment. I assume I have to use some kind of > > > LayoutParams and so I've looked into it but am still not sure how > > > exactly to use them. Can anyone suggest a way to do what I want? > > > ____________________________________ > > > for (String comment : comments_list) { > > > > TextView txt_comment = new TextView(this); > > > txt_comment.setText(comment.toString()); > > > txt_comment.setTextColor(R.color.solid_black); > > > > comment_layout.addView(txt_comment); > > > } > > > Yes, you need LayoutParams. More importantly, you need a LinearLayout or > > something -- a ScrollView only has one child. So, add your TextViews to > > the LinearLayout via addView() with a LinearLayout.LayoutParams object. > > > However, if you are going to have more than a few dozen comments, you > > really really really want to roll back to the ListView approach, as your > > proposed UI will take up a fair bit of memory and a fair bit of CPU time > > to create. The advantage of ListView is that it can show thousands of > > comments using only a handful of TextViews -- your approach would > > require thousands of TextViews. > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
